Happy Easter - Imaginisce

Hi everyone! Today I'd like to share my Imaginisce Easter layout with you, which featured on their blog last Wednesday.

I created this layout, not using any real Spring/Easter papers at all, but with the beautiful papers of Imaginisce's Sunny collection and with some help of my beloved Silhouette Cameo.  

Each year on Easter morning my kids go hunting for chocolate Easter eggs and bunnies my hubby and I hid the evening before; sometimes outside in the garden en sometimes in our house, depending on the weather. And although my kids are 11, 16 and 19 years old they all enjoy this tradition very very much! 

I love the "Happy Easter" title I found in the Silhouette store because of the fun bunny ears and eyes on the "E". I used some pink American Crafts cardstock to cut it from. 

I also cut the word "bunny" and the little chicken (from 17Turtles) with my Silhouette and added a little Imaginisce word sticker for the finishing touch. The strip with the colorful triangles on the right of the photo is one of the fun die-cuts in the Sunny collection: 

To create the tags I used a punch from my stash: 

The little banner was hand cut and the puffy sticker is from Imaginisce's "Let's Travel" collection: 

With the addition of some stamped sentiments and the date and a few drops of ink my page was finished. Hope you like it! 

Supplies:

Imaginisce: patterned papers, word sticker, die-cut (Sunny collection), American Crafts: cardstock, twine, stamp. 

For a good look at the "Sunny" collection hop over to this blog post and scroll down a little.

Btw, I happened to notice that Juliana, from 17Turtles, shares a few Easter/Spring cut files on her blog, among others the cute chicken I used! 

Thank you so much for stopping by my blog today. Wishing you a wonderful day!

xoxo

Monique

Imaginisce layout with brand new Heartland Farm collection!!

Good morning everyone! My Imaginisce layout using their new  "Heartland Farm" collection is up on their blog!! I'm so excited about the brand new collection! I love the bright colors, the super cute embellishments and the versatility of this collection!

For today's layout I chose a photo of my daughter's rabbit, called "Muffin". It's sad, but while my daughter was (is) away at High School in the US this rabbit passed away. Because my daughter was so upset about this, I decided to create this page for her.

I started with the large circle cut file and adhered several of the beautiful patterned papers behind it. Because of the round shape of the cut file I chose lots of circle die-cuts to embellish my page.

And also used my i-Top tool to create a couple of matching brads.

The round wood pieces were just perfect as well!

And although the carrot die-cut wasn't round, lol, it was made for my page!

The other die-cuts are just as awesome, like these flowers. I used some foam adhesive to add a bit of depth.

I really and truly love this new collection and am already working on my next project! I'm sure you'll love it too!

Supplies:
Imaginisce: patterned paper, cardstock die-cuts, wood piece (Heartland Farm), brad daddies 16mm and 22mm; American Crafts: cardstock, Thickers. Tools: Imaginisce I-Top tool, I-Top punch (16mm and 22mm). Other: Silhouette Cameo, 17turtles cut file.

A few images of this new collection:

Cute right?!!

The "love" cutting file I used is a free file from 17turtles.

Thank you so much for stopping by my blog. I hope you enjoyed my project!
xoxo

Spring layout - Imaginisce

Good morning everyone! For Imaginisce I created this Spring layout using the fabulous "Welcome Spring" collection. I had this cute photo of my youngest son learning to walk on stilts one beautiful Spring morning in May 2013. He was so utterly proud of himself when he managed to walk down the garden path! He called us all over to show us how many steps he could walk, we all had to count with him, hence the numbers background cut file I used.

Except for the "Welcome Spring" collection I also used one of Imaginisce's tools for my layout: the "I-Score & Pierce" tool. First I used it to pierce holes in my paper to stitch the buttons: 

And then I used it to create a little embossed line in this punched butterfly to fold it neatly, so I could create a 3D butterfly:

The "I-Score & Pierce" tool has four tools all in one: there are 4 tips: a 1mm piercing tip, a 4mm piercing tip, a 1.5mm embossing tip and a 2.0mm tip. The tool has an easy push button to easily switch over to the other tips:

I'm so happy I found this tool, because, apart from it being very handy indeed, it's also of a beautiful pink color. It's not that I like the color pink so very much, but more because now it stands out in my overflowing craft tote and I can easily find it! Both my old piercing tool and embossing tool are of a metallic color and I could never find them in my tote!

Here's one last close-up photo before I give you the supply list: 

Supplies: 

Imaginisce: patterned paper, cardstock die-cuts, die-cut journaling tags (Welcome Spring); American Crafts: cardstock, Thickers. Tools: Imaginisce I-Score & Pierce tool. 

Other: Silhouette Cameo, numbers cut file from 17turtles, bunny cut file from Lori Whitlock.

Thank you so much for stopping by our blog today! 

Monique

17turtles - I Am layout

Good morning to you all!! Today I have another Simple Stories I Am layout up on the 17turtles blog! I would love if you'd take a peek!!

Here's a quick look: 

I used one of the cut files from Everyday Circle Clips and enlarged it to almost 12x12 size. If you want to see the entire page, hop over to 17turtles!

Btw, the I Am collection from Simple Stories I got from the Scraptastic Store! It's still in stock if you need some!

Thank you so much! 

xoxo

Winner Scrapping Our Stash Blog Hop!!

I still owe you a winner for the $ 10.- gift card to the "17turtles" store from the "Scrapping Our Stash" Blog Hop!!

So, without further ado .... congrats to: Lisa Spiegel!!

I want to thank all my new followers, here and on Instagram and I also want to thank everyone who pinned my project!

Have a fab Friday and I hope to see you here again tomorrow, for yet another blog hop! This one with Pretty Little Studio and Tombow!

xoxo

SCRAPPING OUR STASH BLOG HOP!! - GIVEAWAY INCLUDED!

Welcome to the Scrapping Our Stash Blog Hop

Hi everyone! Welcome to my blog! I hope you're enjoying the hop so far! If you've arrived here from the awesome Suzanna Lee you're in the right place! If not, you may want to go to the start of the hop: Jennifer Haggerty.

This is the very first time I'm joining in the "Scrapping Our Stash" blog hop and I hope there will be many more to come, as my stash is huge! 

Here's what I created for today's hop, using a very old Pink Paislee collection "Hometown Summer". I love(d) this collection so much I just hung on to it, but now it had gotten all dusty and the colors started to fade a bit around the edges, so I thought it was high time I used it:

I also used the "Circles within Circles" digital cutfile from the 17turtles shop, as these circles so perfectly repeat the circle of that "thing" my son is standing in in the photo (it's actually a part from a pop-up tent). 

The circle stamp is one of my favorite stamps and is from Scraptastic Club: 

I just adore the colors, stickers, chipboard pieces & die-cuts in this collection! I'm so happy I finally used it!

And this is the 17turtles "Circles Within Circles" cut file I used:

GIVEAWAY!!

And just because I love giving away presents, I want to do a little giveaway! As I'm on the 17turtles design team, I thought it would be fun to giveaway $10.- to spend in the 17turtles shop! 

To enter you can do any or all of the following:

1) Become a follower here

2) Become a follwer on Instagram: https://instagram.com/moniqueliedtke/

3) Pin my layout onto Pinterest

Please leave me a comment to let me know which you have done!

This giveaway will remain open until 11:59 pm on April 8th!  I will announce a winner within a couple days! Open to everyone and everywhere! 

Now Hop on over to the next stop in the hop: the talented Charity!

And just in case you need it, here's the entire blog hop list:

Jennifer 

Wendy C 

Katrina 

Suzanna 

Monique - you're here!

Charity 

Kerri 

Cheryl 

Sandy 

Majken  

Juliana 

Thank you so much for joining us! Have fun hopping along! 

xoxo

Guesting for Jillibean Soup - part 2

Hi everyone! As I told you before I'm guesting for Jillibean Soup this month and right now my second layout and card are up on their blog!! I would really appreciate it if you'd stop by and have a look!!

Here're two sneak peeks using the brand new collections Summer Red Raspberry Soup, Party Playground and Saffron Yellow Pepper Soup. I really adore these new collections!!!! For the layout I also used the Slice Of Life cut file from 17turtles.

First up is a sneak of the layout:

and here's the card, not really a sneak, more from another angle:

Thank you so much for your support!!
Have a fab day!
xoxo

Remember - Pretty Little Studio

Hi everyone! I still have a Pretty Little Studio “Baby Jack” layout to share. Last week when I was going through my photos I stumbled across this photo of my youngest, then 3 months old. Doesn’t he look adorable? I put everything aside and started scrapping straight away.

I pulled out the Baby Jack collection, because of the super cute die-cuts I knew I had. I just love that moon die-cut and desperately wanted to use it! The only “but” was that the colors of the Baby Jack collection and the colors of the photo didn’t match. Baby Jack has a lot of green/orange/yellow colors and the photo has a lot of blue. So what I did was, I selected the wood veneer and the yellow papers from the Baby Jack collection and some blue paper from the You & Me collection and that worked just fine!! Hope you like it too!!

I'm still a huge "feather" fan:

Love the wood veneer tags!!!

The flowers and leaves are a digital cut file from the 17turtles shop:

If you want to know which PLS products I used, please hop over to my blog post on Pretty Little Studio's blog. I've listed everything I used and included the link to shop so you can find it easily.

And here's the 17turtles cut file I used: Roses

Thank you so much for paying a visit to my blog! Hope you liked my page.
xoxo

17turtles Layout and Tutorial Sneak Peek!

Hi everyone! Today my 17turtles layout and a tutorial on how I created the title went up on the 17turles blog!! I would love to learn what you think! Here's the link if you feel like popping over to have a look!

Thank you so much for stopping by!
xoxo

Coffee Loving Cardmakers Spring Blog Hop!!

Welcome to the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Spring Blog Hop!!! I hope you are enjoying the hop sofar!

The Coffee Loving Cardmakers Spring Blog Hop has 21 generous Super Sponsors that are giving away some AMAZING prizes and I'm proud to announce that one of those sponsors is 17turtles! Juliana is giving away a $15 GC to the 17turtles Shop!!! And she has some amazing coffee cut files!! I used one of them to create my card (you'll find it at the bottom of this post):

Here is the full list of the all the Super Sponsors...
17Turtles
A Muse Studio/Chris Franco
A Jillian Vance Design
Butterfly Reflections Ink
Create a Smile
Evelin T Designs
Kraftin’ Kimmie
Latina Crafter
Newton’s Nook
Paper Smooches
Poppystamps
Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L
Stampin’ Up/Veronica Zalis
STAMPlorations
Stamp Simply Ribbon Store
SugarPea Designs
The Alley Way Stamps
Two Paper Divas
Your Everyday Stamps
Your Next Stamp
Verve Stamps

And because the hop runs for a full week, they will be awarding Flash prizes throughout the duration of the hop! The Flash announcements will be posted on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Facebook page on a daily basis, so if you haven't joined, I invite you to do so!

Here is the full list of all of the Flash Sponsors...
Add a Little Dazzle
Serendipity Stamps
Stamp Academy
Stamps and Scrapbooks
Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps
The Twinery
Waltzingmouse Stamps

For your chance to win a prize from one of the Super Sponsors or Flash Sponsors all you have to do is link up a newly created spring themed coffee, tea &/or cocoa project using the InLinkz that will be available on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog. You can enter until 11:55 PM pacific on Friday, March 6th.

Winners of prizes will be randomly selected from those who participate in the hop and all winners will be announce on Sunday, March 8th on the on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog.

GIVEAWAY • GIVEAWAY • GIVEAWAY • GIVEAWAY • GIVEAWAY
And if all those chances to win are not enough for you, I'm going to give you one more chance! All you have to do is follow my blog and leave a comment for the chance to win this set of American Crafts Precision Pens from me! You have until 1:55 PM EST on Friday, March 6th to leave a comment for your chance to win my blog candy!!!

And now on to the card I created! I used one of my favorite cut files from the 17turtles shop: "I love coffee & tea" cut file and some fun and bright papers and a sticker from Bella Blvd's Sprinkles collection:

and from another side: 

And this is the 17turtles cut file I used: I love coffee & tea

Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you totally enjoy this fun blog hop! I invite you to play along by creating your own spring themed coffee, tea and/or cocoa project and linking it up on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Spring Blog Hop for a chance to win some fabulous prizes!

Hugs,
Monique

Hugs & Kisses Digital Cut File 17turtles & Bella Blvd "Kiss Me" !!

Good evening everyone! Today I've been playing with my Silhouette Cameo, a digital cut file from 17turtles and my Bella Blvd stash!! and I had so much fun!

Ever since Juliana added new cut files to the 17turtles store I've been wanting to play with them and today I finally got the chance. I used the new "Hugs & Kisses" cut file and Bella Blvd's "Kiss Me" collection (an oldie, but a goodie from October 2012) and made this layout for my daughter with her boyfriend in the star role (but if you look closely in his glasses you'll see my daughter, lol - the glasses are hers too!): 

I love using background cut files and when I couldn't find the exact right one in the 17turtles store I decided to adjust one of the Hugs and Kisses cut files from the store. Wanna know what I did? I chose this cut file:

But I only wanted the xoxo cut file from the top left corner, so deleted all the others: 

Next I copied the cut file: 

And placed the two shapes next to each other, overlapping in the middle. Then I selelected them ... 

... and clicked on the "weld" button in the bottom left corner. If you look closely you'll see that the line that separated the two cut files is now gone:

I repeated this step (copy, select and weld) and got this: 

I resized the cut file by dragging one of the corners until I had this: 

And cut it from a sheet of smooth white Bazzill cardstock:

It turned out exactly as I wanted it!! and you already saw the end result:

And a few close-ups:

and:

The "I love you because .... " journaling sticker empty because that's for my daughter to complete! 

Here's what I used for my layout: patterned paper, stickers, alpha stickers: Bella Blvd "Kiss Me"; cardstock: Bazzill Basics; epoxy hearts: Pebbles; cork &: Studio Calico; digital cut file: 17turtles Hugs & Kisses; Silhouette Cameo; Aigger sewing machine; Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher. 

This is the 17turtles cut file I used: Hugs & Kisses

And this is it! Hope you found this helpful and if you've got any questions, please fire away! 

Wishing you an awesome weekend! 

xoxo